God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatu…

C. S. Lewis
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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